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ROME (AP) — Prince William's office says it is reviewing "all proportionate responses" to the planned publication by an Italian gossip magazine of topless photos of William's wife Kate.

Chi, owned by former Premier Silvio
Berlusconi, said Saturday it planned to publish a 26-page spread with
the photos Monday. The French magazine Closer, also owned by Berlusconi,
published the photos Friday and was immediately slapped with a lawsuit
by the royal couple alleging privacy violations.

A spokeswoman at
St. James Palace, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with
palace policy, said further publication served no purpose “other than to
cause further, entirely unjustifiable upset” to the couple who were
relaxing in a private home.